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Mental health disorders are among the leading worldwide causes of disease and long-term disability. This issue has a long and painful history of gradual de-stigmatization of patients, coinciding with humanization of therapeutic approaches. What are the current trends in Russia regarding this issue and in what ways is it similar to and different from Western countries? IQ.HSE provides an overview of this problem based on research carried out by Svetlana Kolpakova.

On September 5, Laurie Manchester, Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, presented her paper on voluntary repatriation of Russians from China to the Soviet Union between 1935 and 1960. The presentation was part of the research seminar, ‘Boundaries of History’, held regularly by the Department of History at HSE University in St. Petersburg. HSE News Service spoke with Laurie Manchester about her research interests, collaborating with HSE faculty members, and the latest workshop.

Dr. Sabyasachi Tripathi, from Kolkata, India, is a new research fellow at HSE University. He will be working at the Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies of the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge.

Working paper

Социальные представления о прошлом: источники и репрезентации

The article presents the attempt to generalize characteristics of ordinary knowledge about the past using two kinds of historical records. The first class constitute different types of sources (including places of memory) which determine ordinary knowledge, the second — representations of social beliefs about the past (memoirs and public-opinion polls). The analysis of available empirical data leads to the conclusion that ordinary knowledge about the past may be represented as three levels structure: meaningful periods in history, important historical events and the great names of history. But in any case the available data bear only well-marked traces of social representations.

This article describes the author's approach to the study of employer’s social perceptions of possible changes in the organization. This approach is provid-ing by consulting services. Justified and described measurement criteria are achievement of the organization, feedback from employers, engagement into the management of the organization, involvement and loyalty, the organiza-tion's ability to change. The survey was conducted on a representative sample of employees of different levels. Obtained estimates of the real and desired state organizations were analyzed. Possible changes are detected and described, both the area to which the organization is prepared and area where changes are not accepted. The recommendations for the top management of the organiza-tion are offered.

In this article the authors continue the analysis of ordinary historical knowledge of the Americans using the USA public-opinion polls’ results. As mass representations of the past are generally based on values and principles shared by the most of the population we start with the brief overview of the “American values system” explicated in polls materials. Then we describe general structure of historical knowledge giving special attention to three parameters: different components of the past (historical periods, facts and personalities); degree of interest to these components and level of knowledge about them. The special point of the article is to identify the set of “markers”, which designate and organize mass historical knowledge. First of all markers of the realm of the past are represented by Very Important Persons an Very Important Events. As well the function of markers may be performed by different artefacts existing in the present but associated with the past.

In this work the authors continue to analyze the problem of ordinary historical knowledge using the USA public-opinion polls’ results. The article opens the series of planned publications on mass representations of the past in the United States. The research is focused on diffe rent sources of knowledge about the past: public and religious education, media-sources, family history and brings to the front the Americans opinion on the relative importance of these sources of information. The article provides methodology to bring along further research on the topic including form and substance of mass historical knowledge and effects.

Historical views are the most important factor in the development of the ethnic self-consciousness. They have an impact not only on the methods of representation of the past, but also on the perception of the modern world. African intellectuals played an important role in the formation of the collective historical memory of Africans and in the understanding of their own past. Literature (historical prose) had a big influence on this process. Their main mission African intellectuals saw in the restoring the historical justice and showing that African people of Southern Africa have not been deprived of greatness, that they were the creators of their history. However, their writings were full of fiction and biased assessments in the interpretation of historical events. The first African historians have been the authors of new historical myths, many of which are alive to the present time.

The present article continues the investigation of the Soqotri verbal system undertaken by the Russian-Soqotri fieldwork team. The article focuses on the so-called “weak” and “geminated” roots in the basic stem. The investigation is based on the analysis of full paradigms (perfect, imperfect and jussive) of more than 170 “weak” and “geminated” Soqotri verbs.

The emergence of the Tea Party movement in recent years has shown that under the surface of mainstream political life in the USA there exists a different layer of ideas, which cannot be satisfactorily described in terms of the Republican/Democrat dichotomy. These ideas have their origins in the foundation of the American Republic, which owes a lot to ancient and mediaeval political theory. In the twentieth century there was a revival of these ideas in the form of the so-called “paleoconservative” movements which rediscovered their ancient and mediaeval heritage. This paper focuses on one of them, the Southern Agrarian movement, as exemplary of this radical intellectual project.